Anna was sitting on the floor, in front of the couch, doing her homework. Raf was playing video games with Jack. Miko was doing her homework in an armchair to the side. Anna stopped when she heard a beeping on the monitor. She looked up from her papers and listened.

Ratchet frowned as he looked at the monitor. "I'd had hoped that my growing expertise on the subject would remain purely academic, but though faint, This is clearly a dark energon signature and it's moving fast."

Optimus looked at Ratchet. "Megatron.."

Arcee quickly looked at the two, "Where'd he find more of the bad stuff?"

Bulkhead frowned, "What's he going to do with it? Recruit a new army of the undead?"

Miko jumped up, looking over at them, "Zombie cons?!"

Optimus looked at her before the others. "We can not rule out the possibility. Especially since Megatron seems to be heading to a familiar site."

Anna walked over to the railing, watching the Autobots curiously. What were they planning to do? They were possibly up against more Zombie!Cons.

Optimus turned to face the other bots, "Megatron has barely emerged from stasis and it seems he's already making up for lost time. Bulkhead, Bumblebee, Ratchet, prepare to roll out!"

Bulk and Bee headed to the entrance while Ratchet turned around, "Me?.."

Optimus nodded, turning to face him, "If we are dealing with dark energon, I may well require your expertise." He turned to Arcee, "Arcee, -"

She nodded, "Bridge operator, I got it."

Miko turned back to her drawing, "Go get him Bulk! Bring the hurt!"

Anna heard Bulk's fist clang together but narrowed her eyes at Miko, what was she up to?

Jack turned to Raf and Anna next to him, "That's not like Miko to not wanna go."

Anna and Raf nodded while Raf spoke up, "She's definitely up to something.."

The four Autobots began to roll out as Arcee opened up the ground bridge. Anna was beginning to relax as the bridge began to close until she saw Miko make a run for it.

Jack shook his head, "Making a break for it!" He and Anna ran after her as quickly as they could with Raf following behind them as fast as his little legs would allow. Anna reached her in the middle of the bridge and grabbed her elbow. Miko jerked from the sudden stop and turned around, trying to break free from her grip. Jack ran up to them, "It's not safe Miko!"

She groaned at them, "I am not going to miss my first zombie con throwdown!" She ripped her arm free and ran from them.

Anna frowned and sprinted after her, "Miko!"

Jack and Raf looked at each other before running after them, "Miko! Stop!"

{X}

They landed in a rocky canyon with the bots walking ahead of them, not noticing they were there yet. Anna shook her head and ran behind a bunch of rocks with Miko. She looked over to see Jack and Raf hide with them a few seconds later. Miko looked at them before climbing to the top of the rock they were hiding behind. Anna frowned but climbed up beside her and narrowed her eyes, it was Starscream.

Bulkhead saw it was in fact Starscream and frowned. "That's not Megatron!"

Miko got on her hands and knees, "Let's see some fighting of the undead already!"

Anna got down beside her while Jack and Raf were on the other side of Miko.

Jack glared at her, "Miko, What were you thinking?"

Raf leaned forward, "She wasn't!"

Anna nodded her head softly in agreement. Miko narrowed her eyes, "Hey! I totally missed out last time! This could be my only chance to take some snaps!" She reached back but frowned, "My cell phone!" She got up and looked around, "I must have dropped it back at base."

Anna looked back too see the bots and Starscream confronting.

Optimus yelled out at him, "Starscream!"

Starscream turned to them and growled. "Autobots!"

Optimus pointed his laser cannon at him, "Stand down!"

Starscream pointed one of his missiles at them, "You stand down!" He moved his finger and the missile went right towards them. Luckily the Autobots hid behind some rocks on the other side of the canyon from the four humans. Optimus shot at him while Starscream was rambling and shot off his right arm. He quickly grabbed it and hid behind another rock. The Autobots began running towards the fallen Starscream.

Anna watched them from her hiding spot while watching the others out of the corner of her eye. She stood up only to have Miko's finger in her face.

"Ugh, I can't believe you made me loose my phone Anna!"

Anna winced at her yelling but glared at her and jabbed her finger into her chest, "You're the one who left the base!"

Miko glared at her and crossed her arms, pouting.

Jack shook his head, "How is it Anna's fault you are incapable of thinking!?" They looked over to see two ground bridges activated on the left side of the canyon, one near the Autobots and one near Starscream.

"You four! Into our ground bridge, Now!"

Anna looked over to see Ratchet yelling at them. Jack nodded, grabbing Miko's hand and dragging her towards the ground bridge. Anna held Raf's hand as she ran behind Jack and Miko. They ran through the ground bridge closest to them, seeing Starscream go through his.

{X}

Anna sat up, rubbing her head and looked down. They were back on the canyon, they must have landed roughly from the ground bridge.

"Everyone okay?"

Anna nodded at Jack, hearing Raf and Miko say they were okay. "What happened?"

They heard Bulkhead groaning and turned to see him rising up from beside them. Bulkhead turned to the other Autobots, "What just happened?"

Ratchet shrugged, "Can't be certain, but if two ground bridges sent to the same coordinates crossed streams the feedback could have triggered a system overload."

Miko looked up at them, "Could? Hello!? More like it totally did!"

Bulkhead looked around, but not at them, "The kids made it through right?"

Anna looked around at all the 'bots in confusion. "What?"

Jack tilted his head, "What's he talking about?"

Miko stormed up to him, "Bulkhead! We're right here!"

Anna ran up to Bumblebee, "Bee?" He didn't even look at her.

Optimus touched his ear to get the com link, "Arcee. Did the children make it safely back to base?"

Ratchet stepped forward, "No sign."

Anna blinked and looked up at Bee and went to kick his foot to get his attention. Her foot went right through his. She screamed and ran back over to Jack. Miko was yelling at Bulkhead when he stepped on her and kept walking. Only Miko was still standing and okay, now screaming as well.

Jack held on to their shoulders, "They went right through you two.. We're not alive!"

Raf frowned, "I don't wanna be a ghost!"

Jack blinked, "Wait, how can we still touch each other?"

They looked over to see the Autobots walking away. They began running after them hearing Optimus speak up, "Ratchet, Could the children have been transported onto the Nemesis instead?"

Ratchet shook his head, "Not likely, Starscream didn't arrive at our base. The most likely explanation is a dislocation.. The children may have simply been bridged to an unintended destination."

Raf frowned as he thought about their situation, "Another place but in the same place?"

Jack blinked, "Huh, what do you mean?"

Anna realized what he was think about, nodding to her brother. "A different dimension.."

Raf grinned at his sister before frowning at what they solved. "Some type of alternate reality.. A shadow zone.."

Miko sighed, "Nerd alert!"

Anna rolled her eyes and shoved her a bit, "Us being nerds has saved your ass before so shut up." She smirked at Raf when he smiled at her. They looked up to see a huge Decepticon get up from behind a rock, near them. He went to attack the Autobots who were about to go into the ground bridge.

They all began running towards them as Miko yelled, "Zombie!"

"Guys! Watch out!"

"Bulkhead!"

"He's right behind you!"

They watched as the con went to slash Bulkhead but his hand went through the Autobots. Anna stopped dead in her tracks and grabbed a hold of Raf's shirt, stopping him as well. He was in the shadow realm with them. So he could also hurt them.

Miko grinned, "Awesome! He can't touch them either!"

The con turned around to face them causing Anna to pull Raf back a bit, "He can touch us though.."

Raf frowned, "We're trapped in the shadow zone with a Decepticon zombie!"

Miko frowned, "If we aren't ghosts now, we will be soon!"

The con stopped in front of them and roared as the humans gaped up at him. Jack turned around and began running, the other three doing the same. They ran past the rock they hid behind earlier only for Raf to trip and his glasses fly off. Anna turned around and bit her lip as she picked him up and helped him run over to Jack and Miko. He had a tight grip on her hand, "Anna! My glasses!"

Jack shook his head and gently moved Raf away from the edge as Anna peeked out from behind the corner. Jack looked as well, "Way too dangerous."

Anna looked back at the con and sprinted to the glasses, grasping them in her hand before racing back just as the con reached her. She put them in Raf's hands and gently pushed him, "Come on."

Miko nodded, "Let's book gramps!" They all began running as the con got even closer to them. They ran down a small path through the canyon, "Maybe we can set a trap and crush him!"

Raf frowned, "With what? Nothing around here is solid except us and the ground."

Miko sighed, "We can't run forever but maybe we can hide?"

{X}

They soon stopped for a bit to catch their breathe. Miko smiled, "Good thing about zombies, they're slow!"

Anna ran her tongue over her lip rings but jumped when her ring-tone started playing. "What?"

Everyone turned to her, "Your phone!"

Anna opened her flip phone and clicked talk, "Hello?... Bumblebee?!" She only heard static and sighed softly as the call ended. She looked at the caller ID and bit the side of her cheek.

Jack sighed softly until he got a call from Arcee, only for the same thing to happen, "Nothing..."

Miko rolled her eyes, "Gee, Imagine that, the fourth dimension has lousy cell phone reception!"

Jack shook his head, "Guys, the phone rang! We're getting signal.."

Raf nodded, "Maybe the Autobots can't see or hears us because.. we're moving at hyper speed or something."

Jack blinked, "Do you think they could read us?.."

Raf nodded, "Texting!"

Miko nodded, "Text me! If my phone is still back at base, maybe they'll see it!"

Anna and Jack got out their phones and texted her phone just to make sure they got the message.

"Uhh can you type and run?!" Anna looked up as she hit send and yelped, shoving her phone in her back pocket. They ran underneath the Zombie!Con's feet and back the way the came.

{X}

"Deja Vu!"

They all turned to Miko as Jack sighed, "What?"

Miko shook her head, "Doesn't this look familiar to you?!"

"Not really."

"Dude! We just ran one big, huge circle!"

They ran into something and fell back on their butts. Anna looked up and gasped seeing Starscream's arm.

Raf looked it over, "It must have gotten trapped here during the explosion!"

They looked behind them to see the con coming towards them. Jack looked back at the arm, "If it's solid, we can use it." Anna caught on to the idea and nodded, running to the fingers and grabbed the fingers he used and waited for the right moment.

Miko sighed, "Anyone know how to fire this thing?!"

Anna sighed and gently touched the right finger and made a tugging motion. "We have to pull back as hard as we can at the right moment." They nodded and kneeled down beneath his fingers as the con walked into their little clearing.

Jack looked at them, "We have one shot, We need to make it count!" They nodded in agreement, getting ready to pull. When the con was almost to them they all pulled and the missile launched into the con's chest.

Anna watched carefully, waiting for the smoke to fade. She knew better than to underestimate cons.

Miko grinned, "How do you like us now?!"

The con waved his hand, making the smoke clear and roaring at them again. They then watched as sparks flew from his right hand, it also falling off. The hand began twitching until it got up and began racing towards them, much faster than his body ever could.

Anna shuddered and began running beside Raf, keeping an eye on him. "What else can go wrong?"

Miko groaned, "How can a zombie arm move faster than the actual zombie!?"

They slowed down at a clearing only to see Starscream's arm in front of them, again.

Miko growled softly, "Oh come on! This place is like one big merry go round!"

Anna groaned, looking around. "This dimension only affected the immediate area. It's a pocket universe. We can't just run out of this canyon."

They looked up to see Starscream yelling and walking towards them. Miko frowned, "Then how'd that freak get into our dimension!?"

Jack looked him over, "He didn't. He can't see us."

Miko made him turn around, "Forget Starscream, we gotta run some more!" They began running away from the hand that has almost caught them and towards Starscream only for a ground bridge to appear in front of them.

Raf frowned, "A ground bridge portal?"

Jack nodded, "That has to be our way out of here.."

Miko grinned, "The Autobots saw your texts!"

Raf frowned, "If we go through, we run smack into Starscream! If we don't..."

They all turned around, "We're zombie chow." The hand was still racing towards them.

Miko sighed, "Option three, we keep running in circles."

Anna looked at Jack before turning to face the arm. "If we time this right, we'll go through as well as the arm. Only we keep going as the hand attacks Starscream."

Jack listened before nodding, "Okay, everyone get ready!" He ran up to right in front of the ground bridge, ready to jump. Anna frowned, her back to the bridge, watching the hand while biting her lip. Miko was doing the same while making worried sounds. Jack waited a bit more, "Now!" They jumped through the portal only Jack dragged Anna through as she was about to be jumped by the zombie arm. Anna fell on her back when they went through. Miko and Raf ran underneath Starscream and down the canyon while Jack helped Anna up. He held her elbow as they began running away only to run into another ground bridge where the Autobots walked through, all except Ratchet. Anna saw Bee and ran up to him, hugging his foot.

Bumblebee leaned down, letting both Raf and Anna get on his hand, putting them on his shoulders. {Are you two alright?!}

Anna looked at Raf. They both nodded quickly, holding onto Bee's armor. "We are now."

{X}

The Autobots were lined up facing the humans in front of them, they wanted to know how it all happened and Bulkhead thought it was Anna's fault.

Anna had her head down, her hair hiding her face while she shuffled her feet nervously.

Miko looked at her and sighed, "Look, If you're going to blame anyone.. Blame me."

Anna looked up at her in confusion.

Jack tilted his head, "I'm sorry. Could you repeat that? A couple dozen times?"

Optimus watched them, "Miko, what you've endured has been lesson enough. We're just glad you're all safe."

Bulkhead gave Miko back her phone, "Guess it's a good thing you dropped this. Too bad you didn't get any pictures though."

Miko shrugged, "Nah, that's okay." She turned around to face Jack, Anna and Raf, "I think after today I pretty much had zombie closeup seared into my brain!"

Anna laughed softly and smiled up at Bee. "Me too."

Bumblebee laughed, his shoulders shaking as he kneeled down, gently picking up his human friends. {Good.}